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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday gave a third-year law student the lesson of his life – to draw a bold line to separate public from publicity-which he is unlikely to forget in his legal innings ahead.Even before Harry Joseph could argue his PIL, a bench led by CJI-designate Surya Kant asked when was…

RAIPUR: Mourners laying to rest a 60-year-old farmer, allegedly trampled to death by wild elephants less than 24 hours earlier, were sent scurrying for cover by a herd that stormed the funeral, charged at the crowd and wrecked several vehicles in Chhattisgarh’s forested Jashpur district. While the mourners asserted it was the same herd, forest…

National Board for Wildlife – a panel that takes decisions on projects in areas near wildlife protected zones – has given its approval to 13 defence and paramilitary projects, most in Ladakh and one in Arunachal Pradesh. Clearances have been given on conditions of following environmental safeguards and mitigation plans to protect Himalayan ecosystems. The…

NEW DELHI/BENGALURU: India on Friday inked an over $1 billion (Rs 8,900 crore) deal with US major General Electric (GE) for another 113 jet engines to power the much-delayed indigenous Tejas Mark-1A fighters. This may to some extent assuage the Donald Trump administration amid tariff tensions. The delivery of the 113 new GE-F404 engines to…

King Charles’s AI warning to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (Image source: Reuters) During the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize) ceremony held at St James’s Palace in London, King Charles III presented a letter on artificial intelligence safety to Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive of Nvidia. The exchange took place as the monarch honoured…

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir high court upheld on Thursday the detention of a woman under the Public Safety Act. The woman is accused by government of being an “overground worker (OGW) who had close contact with Musaib Lakhvi, the nephew of Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi”, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks mastermind and LeT co-founder.Appellant Shaista Maqbool…

Khawaja Asif (File photo) Pakistani defence minister Khawaja Asif on Friday said the dialogue between Pakistan and Afghanistan has effectively collapsed, noting that the process has “entered an indefinite phase” after negotiators failed to narrow key differences, reported Dawn News.Officials and security sources earlier confirmed there was no breakthrough.“The talks in Istanbul are deadlocked,” a…

Representative image (File photo) NEW DELHI: A 51-year-old fruit seller who secretly led the “Mamu Gang”, a group involved in a series of bank burglaries across several states has been arrested by the Delhi Police Crime Branch, officials said on Friday.The accused, identified as Kamrul alias Mamu, a resident of Uttar Pradesh was wanted in…

The global cryptocurrency market has lost significant ground after reaching a record high earlier this month, with traders pulling back amid fears of deeper losses.At its October 6 peak, the total market capitalisation of all cryptocurrencies hit nearly $4.4 trillion. However, a 20% slump since then has erased most of this year’s gains, leaving the…

The Trump administration has recently hiked the application fee for the much sought after H-1B visa to a mind numbing $100,000! Indian students in the US who were looking at bagging lucrative jobs are facing a big shock – Donald Trump’s H-1B visa fee hike has left them in a lurch as companies automatically reject…